Harvey: Oh, you kids these days, I'm telling you. You think the only relationship a man and a woman can have is a romantic one.... />Gil: That sure is what we think. You got something better?Harvey: Oh, romance is very nice. A good thing for youngsters like you, but Helene and I have found something we think is more appropriate to our stage of life--companionship.Gil: Companionship? I've got a flea-bitten old hound at home who'll give me that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He doesn't want you for friends, that's why he did it. You see, when guys have been in the line as long as we have, you find out i...t's no good to make friends, 'cause when a friend gets it--well, it's rough on you. The buddies that come with you you're stuck with, but you don't make no new ones. It's the dyin' truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of war they suddenly find themselves l...iving under conditions of violence, requiring new rules of conduct that are in direct contrast to the conditions they lived under as civilians. They learn to accept this to perform their duties as fighting men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »